* The
demographic characteristics of victims indicates that the victim is
predominantly female, civilian spouse of active duty personnelwho are, on average slightly less than 25 years old.The spouse abuse victims have children (78%) and more than half
have been married for two years of less. Fifty-two percent of the
victims live off the installation. -Abuse Victims Study, DoD, 1994 and
Final Report on Spouse Abuse, Caliber Associates, 1996

*
Offenders are somewhat less likely to be promoted and somewhat more
likely to be separated from the Service.The fear of negative consequences is probably out of proportion
to the true impact. -Abuse Victims Study, DoD, 1994

*
Although data are hard to obtain, it is apparent that relatively few
military personnel are prosecute or administratively sanctioned on
charges stemming from domestic violence. -Initial Report of the Defense
Task Force on Domestic Violence, 2001

*
Less than 7 percent of spouse abuse cases are adjudicated by
court-marital. -Symposium on DV Prevention Research, 2002

*
Rates of marital aggression are considerably higher than civilian rates,
double, three to five times. -The War At Home, 60 Minutes, January 17,
1999; Heyman and Neidig. (1999). A comparison of spousal aggression
prevalence rates in U.S. Army and civilian representative samples.
Journal of Consulting and Clinicial Psychology, 67 (2), 239-242; Gelles,
Sixty Minutes Battered the Truth, OpEd, Washington Times, 1999; Rosen,
Brennan, Martin, and Knudson. (August 2002).Intimate Partner Violence and US Army Soldiers in Alaska,
Military Medicine; The War At Home, 60 Minutes, September 1, 2002.

*
Recent estimates suggest that sexual assault in the military is
experienced by 9 to 4 percent of female service members, depending upon
the service branch. An earlier study conducted by the Defense Manpower
Center indicated that 5 percent of female respondents and 1 percent of
male respondents were victims of actual or attempted rape. -Department
of Defense Sexual Harassment Survey, 1995

*
8 percent of female Persian Gulf War veterans in a survey reported being
sexually abused during Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

*
37 percent of women who reported a rape or attempted rape had been raped
more than once; 14 percent of the victims reported having been gang
raped.

* The
number of cases treated at VA Sexual Trauma Centers include over 22,000
male victims and over 19,000 female victims of sexual trauma.-Veterans' Millennium Health
Care Act, Preliminary Findings

*
3/4ths of the female veterans who were raped did not report the incident
to a ranking officer.1/3rd
didn't know how to; and 1/5th believed that rape was to be expected in
the military.Women who
served in Gulf War I were the only group that did not consider rape to
be an expected part of military life.